A joint investigation by Kirklees Council and the Department of Work and Pensions also found he pretended to be a tenant at his former partner’s home to claim housing benefit and helped a neighbour to put up scaffolding and decorate his home.

Miles Barker, prosecuting, told Leeds Crown Court that Ballantyne – performing under the pseudonym David Roberts – played with Chuck Wagon in a way that ‘clearly belied his incapacity statement’.

He added that the man’s diaries indicated regular rehearsals and gigs up and down the country.